PhD Research

Culture and Enterprise staff currently supervise a broad range of topics from philosophy and comics, to museum studies and popular music. The programme has over 18 students whose PhD’s are both practice and text based.

If you are interested in applying for a research degree (MPhil or PhD) at UAL please visit the Apply for a Research Degree webpage for further information, including application procedures & deadlines and contact details for both administrative and academic queries.

Please see below to discover what topics our current PhD students are working on and which member of staff is supervising:

Professional Female House Decorators, 1870 to 1899: an examination of their work and an evaluation of their significance in the history of British interior design.

Architectural lettering and corporate identity: early branding on commercial buildings

Caroline Dakers and Michaela Giebelhausen

From a Home to a Historic House Museum: The Creation, Presentation and Representation of an Artist's House (1871-1938). An Examination of the Multiple Histories of Kelmscott Manor as a Home and a Place of Inspiration for Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Jane Morris, May Morris and their Circle.